When Kristi Loyall found out she had cancer and was going to lose her foot, her first inclination was to make a joke.

“So I said, ‘Hey, can I have my foot back?’” Loyall said.

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Her doctor thought she was making a joke, but the Oklahoma-native was serious. If she was going to lose her foot to cancer, she wanted her foot back. Ultimately, she got what she wanted.

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And now, an Instagram account has given her amputated foot fame.

“It was my cousin’s friend’s idea. They messaged me on Facebook and said they had an idea that I should start an Instagram for my foot. I wanted to do it to make other people and myself laugh,” she said.

It worked. The One Foot Wander Instagram page has more than 13,000 followers and that number keeps rising. Loyall said the response was bigger than she ever expected.

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“I was excited when 100 people were following my foot,” she said. “A lot of people have left positive and kind comments. I didn’t really expect that.”

The unexpected response had positive results for Loyall, too.

“It actually made me feel better about my situation,” she said.“It’s made my outlook on life more positive. I used to be kind of pessimistic.”

Loyall doesn’t travel much with her foot, instead sticking to photos of her foot around Oklahoma City, the place she calls home. But she does have a few adventures she wants to go on with her foot.

“Going to Harry Potter world. That’s my life dream,” she said.

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Next month, she is taking her foot to Colorado.

“It’s a program where they pay for you to go on some sort of week-long camping trip.